Award Bios Checksum error

[BurnItDwn]

My old Abit BH6 rev 1.0 with celeron finnaly appears to have died.

Upon powering it on it gets to

"Award Bios Checksum error"

It then asks for a disc in drive a (this PC does not have a floppy drive attached)

Which of these options makes the most sense to you?

1. Install a floppy drive and flash the bios (not sure if this is just a wasto of time, is it?)
2. Try to find a replacement Bios (probably hard to get or a waste of money)
3. Find a cheap BX board and just trash the old mobo
4. Buy a cheapo board (ie ECS ks75a) for under $50 and a cheap duron or tbird (want to keep cost below $100) and use the celeron as an upgrade for my aunt (my celeron is a 533@800, she has only a 366@550)
5. Since i dont really use this box just jeep it for spare parts (though my bro uses it and its kinda nice to have just to surf the web etc)

 

[amdskip]

Option 4 would be my choice. I've dealt with these check sum errors before and they are a real biatch to fix. I just messed and messed with the board until it was happy but it is such a pain!

 

[BurnItDwn]

thanks for the advice and input amdskip

 

[BFG10K]

Have you tried resetting/clearing the CMOS?
Or how about just going into the BIOS setup, changing something and then saving it?

 

[MichaelD]

Take out the mobo battery for about an hour, then try it. If no-go, then option #4.

Wait...what is this PC used for? If it's just a second box or a file-server, then yeah #4.